Their commission was suspicious.

"..."

"Hmm, why aren't you saying anything?"

"..."

……

"Teacher, I'm coming in." Chen Luo knocked on the door a few times as a formality.

Chen Luo felt that his teacher must know he was there, but he didn't dare to go in until his teacher said "come in".

After receiving a response, Chen Luo directly entered the door in a physical sense while in a virtual stealth state.

"Snap!" But Chen Luo had only gone halfway in when something flicked his head, sending him flying out of the room in his stealth state.

"Be normal." The puppeteer's voice came from inside the door.

"Oh." Chen Luo rubbed his forehead after being knocked out of stealth mode, then stared at the chalk in his hand, completely puzzled.

No, teacher, where did you get the chalk?

When Chen Luo pushed open the door normally, he saw the puppeteer sitting by the window, resting her chin on her hand, looking at the scenery outside. She was as beautiful as a doll.

In the hands of the puppeteer, there was also an exquisite figurine that resembled a stage.

It looks somewhat like a miniature version of the grand theater used for the Harmonious Festival in Pinocchio's dream.

"Teacher, Genyuan said she wants a doll body to play mahjong with," Chen Luo said while examining the figurine.

Chen Luo felt that the figurine gave him a very strange feeling.

"Here you go." The puppeteer nodded, then reached into the small device that resembled a grand theater, took out a one-centimeter-sized puppet, and tossed it to Chen Luo.

After Chen Luo received the doll, it immediately shrank to the size of a palm.

"This isn't a doll made from the World Tree, is it?" Chen Luo asked, examining the doll.

“No, but the root cause is just wanting to play mahjong. This doll is enough for her. If she wanted a real body, she should have asked me for it the first time we met. You can just give this to her,” the puppeteer said.

"Oh……"

"Is there anything else?" The puppeteer turned to look at Chen Luo.

"Teacher, did you do something to Pinocchio? Why do I always feel something is off every time I come to Pinocchio?" Chen Luo asked.

"You've made quite a bit of progress. I thought you'd only notice it at the very end." The puppeteer looked at Chen Luo with approval in his eyes.

"I do hold some power, you know?" Chen Luo said softly.

Although Chen Luo has only achieved the level of holding power and has not yet broken through the limitations of this authority to transcend it, Chen Luo's desire for authority has some special characteristics.

That is, Chen Luo is a special agent who acts on the wishes of a traveler.

Pinocchio has already gathered many adventurers from the paradise, each of whom has taken the first step to become a Wish Walker. Each of these Wish Walkers is an extension of Chen Luo. Even if each person is only slightly affected, when the insights of all the Wish Walkers are gathered together, the impact on Chen Luo becomes very obvious.

“Indeed… In that case, let’s have a trial. How about it?” the puppeteer suddenly said.

"Trials? What trials?" Chen Luo asked, puzzled.

"If you can successfully pass this trial, I will give you a coming-of-age gift that you absolutely cannot refuse. How about it? Your birthday should be coming up soon, right?" the puppeteer said.

"Uh, actually I'm over 18, but if I had to say how much time I have left in the main world, it would be a few days," Chen Luo said.

Today is September 26th in the main world, while Chen Luo's birthday is October 1st.

Although Chen Luo had actually spent countless days in the time jumps, his birthday had already passed in one of those time jumps.

"A man is a boy until he dies, and it doesn't matter when your birthday is; I think it's important when your birthday is."

"???" Chen Luo was full of questions.

"So are you confident you can pass this trial?"

"What type of trial?" Chen Luo's heart tightened.

The trials of the transcendent sound very difficult.

There are only two kinds of life in the world: those who transcend and those who do not.

Even if Chen Luo has the talent to transcend, as long as he doesn't cross that hurdle, he will never be able to catch up with him.

It was only after Chen Luo possessed the Seed of Transcendence and became a candidate for Transcendence that he realized how terrifying a Transcendence was.

"Don't worry, it's really just a small trial." The puppeteer smiled mysteriously.

"So, teacher, what you did to Pinocchio was to construct the playground for this trial?" Chen Luo couldn't help but look at the toy stage in the puppeteer's hands.

"Pretty much, but you don't need to worry so much. I just had a sudden urge. There are no losers in this trial, and you won't pay any price even if you don't pass." The puppeteer looked at Chen Luo with a hint of a smile in his eyes.

"Teacher, when did you arrive at Pinocchio?" Chen Luo suddenly asked.

"you guess?"

“…I knew it.” Chen Luo covered his forehead.

"But teacher, you have to tell me what the trial is about, right?" Chen Luo said.

“That won’t do, because the riddle in this trial is the answer.”

"..."

"Or are you planning to use your power of wish-granting to sense what my current wish is? Perhaps you could give it a try, since what's here isn't my true form. You still have a slight chance of success," the puppeteer said.

"I've already checked, but I didn't see anything." Chen Luo shook his head.

Chen Luo did not intentionally check; rather, now that he possessed the power of wish control, he could automatically sense the wishes of anyone he came near, unless he deliberately blocked them out.

However, this ability to detect desires was useless to the puppeteer in front of him, who was not his true form. From Chen Luo's perspective, the puppeteer was like a black hole, swallowing up everything he could see.

"You actually looked at it after I told you to?" The puppeteer seemed somewhat surprised.

"!!!" Upon hearing this, Chen Luo suddenly had the feeling that the other person might just smash the miniature stage model in their hand onto his head.

"Hehe, just kidding. Don't worry, just follow your instincts and you'll be fine. Alright, hurry up and go out, that girl has been standing at the door for a long time, don't keep her waiting."

"Oh." Having confirmed that he couldn't get any more information from the puppeteer, Chen Luo could only obediently leave.

Chen Luo felt that the effort he had put in to invite his teacher to Pinocchio in hopes of obtaining some elements of deception (exploding gold coins) from them might be beyond his imagination.

Moreover, it's hard to guarantee that the moment such a thought arises, one has already fallen into the puppeteer's stage play.

This is a ruthless person who once dominated and deceived the entire dimensional sea.

But since it's a trial, there will naturally be rewards after you succeed, and the rewards may even exceed your expectations.

"What's wrong, Chen Luo? Why do you look so troubled?" Durandal asked, looking at Chen Luo as he walked out of the door.

"Ah, it's nothing." Chen Luo shook his head after walking out with the doll given to him by the puppeteer.

This trial should be safe.

Even though Chen Luo is currently a candidate for transcendence, if a transcendent being were to actually attack him, Chen Luo would be powerless to resist. If the other party truly had designs on him, they could simply take action directly.

Even Chen Luo's ability to detect something amiss this time might be due to the puppeteer's deliberate actions.

For now, the only option is to remain cautious about the trials that may appear at any time and in any form, while Pinocchio tries to achieve its goal.

As for giving up deceiving the entire universe for the sake of this trial?

What if the puppeteer's trial is to see if Chen Luo will abandon his original ideas under immense pressure?

The biggest challenge of the puppeteer's trial is not knowing what kind of trial it is.

However, the puppeteer also gave a hint: follow your intuition.

"Pinocone's plan to cause trouble during this Harmony Festival is just too bad," Chen Luo sighed.

The current Pinocchio has all sorts of weird and wonderful things to it; it has too many elements.

Moreover, because of the Transcendent One, Chen Luo can no longer use his reconnaissance abilities to observe the future. In this situation, what he observes is either a future without the Transcendent One's interference or a future that the Transcendent One wants Chen Luo to see.

"Let's go, I'll teach you how to use the Dream Pool." Chen Luo pulled himself out of his thoughts and left with Durandal.

"What do you want to do?" After Chen Luo left, a voice echoed from high above in the puppeteer's room.

"Guess what?" Upon seeing the world consciousness taking the initiative to communicate with him, the puppeteer was not surprised at all, and even admired its courage.

How dare they take the initiative to talk to someone who has transcended worldly concerns? Don't they have a death wish?

Of course, those who can transcend at this stage are generally not the capricious transcendents, but the world consciousness's consistent attitude towards transcendents is to ignore them.

"..." If the world's consciousness could guess this, why would it need to ask the transcendent?

World consciousness is the dominant force in world action, possessing a clear understanding of the fate and future of the entire world, but that is before the arrival of the transcendent beings.

"Don't worry. I won't make any big fuss," the puppeteer said lazily.

"Do you think I'd believe that, witch?"

"Puppeteer, okay? Don't tell me their code name."

"The witch—a transcendent being representing conspiracy and domination—isn't that the title you held when you deceived the entire dimensional sea before becoming a true transcendent being?"

The conspiracy even preceded its domination.

This is the fear that the puppeteer brought to the Dimensional Sea at that time.

Whether before or after becoming a Transcendent, people have a unified impression of puppeteers: when a puppeteer arrives at a place, the biggest mastermind behind that place will become a witch.

The puppeteer is also the only transcendent being in the entire dimensional sea who possesses a semi-title.

Because the witch was not recognized by the Dimensional Sea, but was recognized by all the creatures in the Dimensional Sea, she can only be considered half a witch.

The current title represents a transcendent being of domination and cunning—the Puppeteer.

Conspiracy often carries a strong negative connotation, and while trickery is also negative, it is still better than conspiracy.

The only pity is that neither witch nor puppeteer are titles that are more focused on combat power.

Although the title will not affect the Transcendent's combat power, it can demonstrate the Transcendent's tendency to exercise power to a certain extent.

The World Consciousness has no doubt that once the puppeteer arrives in Pinocone, Pinocone will become nothing more than a pawn for the puppeteer's whims.

"I haven't engaged in intrigue or manipulation for a long time, so please stop judging me based on my past. Back then, I was trying to transcend, so I had to put the entire Dimensional Sea in a difficult position. Besides, apart from the psychological impact, I didn't cause any real harm to the Dimensional Sea at the time."

"..."

That's true, but the world's consciousness is still uneasy.

It's hard to say whether the World Consciousness considered the Witch's achievements in the Dimensional Sea when designing the storyline for the Herrscher of a Thousand.

However, the world consciousness has restrained itself; otherwise, the thousand-strong herald could have caused even greater destruction to the previous civilization.

"You don't trust me, but don't you trust Chen Luo? For Xiao Luo's sake, I won't do anything too outrageous. After all, this world has helped him a lot," the puppeteer said.

"..." The World Consciousness gets even more of a headache when Chen Luo is mentioned.

What merit does my world's Pinocchio have to be used by Chen Luo as a brand to entertain those who transcend?

However, it's not entirely a bad thing.

Although it's just a small planet within my own world, it has inadvertently become a testing ground for the transcendents to test their juniors. But if I'm lucky, I might even be able to snag some rewards.

Although there are currently no business leaders who have transcended the limitations of the business world, every one of them is never short of money.

Especially skilled professions like puppeteers who can create World Tree puppets.

The "testing ground" that the other party modified might be able to be sold for money.

Next, let's find out more about the trial for Chen Luo.

Chapter 2240 Chen Luo: World Consciousness Takes Turns, This Year It's My Turn!

"What? You're saying this puppet was taken from a stage model by the puppeteer? Oh no, could Pinocchio have a role for me?" After receiving the puppet from Chen Luo, Genyuan didn't seem as excited as Chen Luo had imagined; instead, he started to worry.

"What do you mean?" Chen Luo had some guesses in his mind, but he was not sure, so he asked.

“Your teacher and I are quite familiar with each other. Her title is Domination and Deception. The former is a summary of her authority, and the latter is because of her actions. Your teacher’s habit is that if she is playing a big game in a certain place, she will make a model based on that place and then put her chosen pieces into it. In that model, those pieces that have their own place are all predetermined pieces,” Genyuan said, playing with the doll in his hand.

In short, each doll is part of the plan.

"Is this a ritual?" Chen Luo didn't think it was a habit; rather, it might be a ritual full of mystical connotations.